Nancy Vedder-Shults lives in Madison, WI, with a feminist spouse. Her twenty-something daughter flew the coop several years ago.

Her work is rooted in ritual, story and song as well as in feminist thealogy and women's studies scholarship. As a Ph.D., she honed her skills in the emerging field of Women's Studies in the 1970s and 1980s, evolving an empowering leadership and teaching style that she uses in retreats and workshops today. Her ongoing research in myth is accessible and inviting, and her workshops are playful and fun!

Nancy has offered personal growth workshops since 1987. In 1992, she left the Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work full-time as a singer, storyteller, educator, workshop facilitator and ritualist. Since then she's presented workshops and sung all over North America. Her approach is both creative and intellectual, using the skills that created her recording, Chants for the Queen of Heaven, as well as those that led to her Ph.D.

Nancy won a Feminist Theology Award from the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation for her work.

Learn more about Nancy and her work at Mama's Minstrel.